Drawing JPEGs (DirectX?)

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I want to draw JPEGs onscreen, but I have no idea how to approach this. Would DirectX be the ...

Drawing JPEGs (DirectX?)

Hello,
I want to draw JPEGs onscreen, but I have no idea how to approach this. Would DirectX be the easiest way out (when I say "easiest", I mean shortest)? Actually, I would also like to draw PNG's (or at least have someway of drawing a semi-transparent image).

Does anyone have any experience in this area?
Any and all help is greatly appreciated!

SDL is fairly straightforward, and easy to learn. SDL_image (a library that often gets used along side SDL) supports JPEGs and PNGs. (And this is not Internet Explorer - PNGs are fully supported, and alpha channels work.)